On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 31, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Marcus (OOo)
> wrote:
> >> Hi license experts, all,
> >>
> >> I'm just wondering if it's necessary to label our webpages with the ALv2
> >> header.
> >>
> >
> > If you look at our project webpages (those at
> > incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg) you see that they do all have the
> > ALv2 stated in a comment in the .
> >
> > That is because all of those pages are new, written in the podling, by
> > committers.
> >
> > For legacy pages at www.openoffice.org, including the wiki, we cannot
> > assume the legacy content is ALv2. It is generally under a range of
> > licenses. But for new content, added by project committers, checked
> > in via Subversion, I think it should be declared as ALv2. That would
> > agree with the iCLA.
> >
> >> At least for our JavaScript files I could think of that it is suitable
> as it
> >> is kind of code? Or also for CSS files? All webpage files?
> >>
> >
> > Anything that can be copyrighted can have the ALv2 license added.
> > But to be honest, I have not really paid attention to this for new web
> > pages. And since the website is not included in our release, none of
> > this gets audited. But I can see it would be a "good thing" if we
> > did this more consistently.
>
> This is my understanding. It will be good to change the mdtext in the
> OOo-site. The old html content was copied and it is not going to be a
> problem according to the information I received.
>
> If you look at the svn you will see that it was Kay and I did the bulk of
> these commits with minimal adjustment. There are scripts that were used to
> do the work.
>
> If we want to insert the al2 banner on every page then there are ways to
> do it with templates or ssi.
>
> When I did this initially in the OOo site was told not to by Dennis. IIRC
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> Regards,
> Dave
>
I'd like to reopen this old thread for a bit.
Dave, do you know why Dennis told you not to do this?
I think when we (you and I) were first porting things over, you had some
concerns -- or rather tracked down -- that the pages were PDL, a license
Sun created.
ref:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html
So, do we basically think that anyone (any one of us or anyone else) can
use/modify the content of these pages according to this license?
> >
> >> Would be great to get opinions from our license gurus. :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Marcus
>
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